Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Julius Cavendish, from Kabul, has just reported in “The Independent” how the battle of Nuristan was anything but an area that U.S.-NATO forces withdrew from, and in doing this, Afghani insurgents easily overrun the province and raised their flag of the Islamist movement. Recall several months when Nuristan fell to U.S.-NATO troops, it was dismissed as an unimportant region and a minor skirmish. However, U.S. soldiers who fought in the region now claim a ferocious battle ensued. According to one account, fighting was so severe that two detachments and a number of helicopters and air-strikes were called in. Another soldier claimed once…
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